OECD Yearly 2012 GDP Growth

More and more countries have been reporting their fourth quarter GDP growth for 2012 lately, and hence the yearly 2012 GDP growth rate. For the countries that have reported their figures China had the highest yearly growth rate of 7.8 percent. Indonesia and Norway are following China with 6.2 and 3.0 percent respectively. Yet, most countries had a growth rate of less than 2 percent, with most all European countries on the lower end. Portugal and Italy saw their economy's decline the most, in Portugal even with 3.2 percent.

Share of World GDP Per Continent (1990-2010)

In the twenty years before 2010 China gained a lot of GDP. Since its GDP growth was a lot higher than in Europe and the United States it also gained in its share of World GDP. That is China's economy got bigger compared to Europe, United States and Japan. This is shown in the graph.

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Percent Of Population Over 65 (2011 Versus 1996)

The populations of the less developed countries are clearly younger than the western economies. Especially Japan and Germany have a big elderly population. Note the huge increase in Japan in the last 15 years. Bulgaria, Estonia and Latvia, noticable less prosperous than the most developed countries, are also in the top 15. South Korea and Ireland are relatively young in their population.

China Export Growth Versus Economic Growth

With export growth structurally slowing down in China economic growth is expected the grow less as well. Export growth is now 1 percent, very close to a decline. This has helped bring the economic growth far under the average of 10 percent (since 2000).

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Where are the Top 500 International Companies Located?

The United States is the only country where more than 100 of the top 500 international companies are located. China is a great second, with Japan, Canada and the big three European countries following shortly. From Business Insider: 'Total revenue at the 500 gained 13.2 percent from 2010, to $29.5 trillion, while profits hit $1.6 trillion'.

Business Insider

Projected Economic Growth in OECD Countries (2012 & 2013)

ABN-AMRO made this graph with its projections for the economic growth of the countries in the world for 2012 and 2013. If a country is to the right of the vertical line it is projected to grow faster than the projected growth of the world GDP, for the horizontal line this is the same for 2013. Countries in the right corner are doing extremely well.

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China & India Will Consume 50 percent Of World Economy in 2050

In this great graph you can see the developing of the economy (gross domestic product) of the world throughout history, illustrated by the relative importance of the nine great powers of the world. Up until 1800, more than half of the world economy was dominated by China and India. Since 1800 the western powers more and more took over the world economy from Asia. Especially look at the development of the United States and the United Kingdom. The process turned around from 1980 when China introduced economic reforms. China and India are projected to have around half of world GDP again by 2050.

This can also be seen as the rise and the fall of the 'West'.

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Non-Financial Corporate Debt

You can see in the graph from The Economist (with data from Mckinsey) that Spain, France and the United Kingdom have the highest non-financial corporations debt of the selection countries. Again the emerging countries have the lowest debt. Non-financial corporation debt is a lot higher in Europe than in North America.

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Household Debt as a Percentage of GDP (Developed and Emerging Countries)

You can see in the graph from The Economist (with data from Mckinsey) that the Anglo-Saxon countries have the highest household debt of selected countries. The emerging countries have the lowest household debt. As you were able to see in this post with total debt (government, household, financial and non-financial) Britain was also the country with the highest total debt.

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IMF World Growth Projections (WEO September)

This graph from Reuters shows the latest projections for economic growth in 2011 and 2012 in different continents. Almost all of the projections have been lowered since the forecast of June.

Reuters

Top Three Countries By Economic Dominance: History, Present & Future

China can be in 2030 economically almost as big as the United States was in 1970, as a share of global economic power (which consists of GDP, Trade and net capital exports). The top 3 for 1870 and 2010 are also given. The United States is the only country that is listed three times. China, Germany and Japan are all listed twice.

The Economist

World: Safest Versus Riskiest Government Debt

This graph from The Economist compares two-year government debt bond yields in the world. On the left side the riskiest bonds are listed (with the highest interest rate) and on the rate sate the safest bonds. Notable is that two out of three of the three countries that have riskiest government bonds are in Europe. The three safest countries are in Europe as well.

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Brazil: Softest BRIC

This graph from Reuters shows that Brazil is growing slower than other BRIC-countries (Russia, India, China), Mexio and Latin/Carribean countries.

Reuters

History of Global Debt

The IMF made an interesting video about the history of public debt from 1980 until recently in developed, emerging and low-income countries.

IMF

Emerging Market Overheating Index

The Economist made a chart with the developing countries ranking them by the state of their economy. They used several indicators to identify whether the economy is overheating or not.

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China Government Debt in Pictures

Local Debt in China has increased dramatically in the last 13 years according to Business Insider.
% of GDP is left scale.

Source: Business Insider

This local government debt makes up the biggest part of total China public debt as the Wall Street Journal shows..

Wall Street Journal

But the public Government Debt hasn't been much higer than the last few years as the Economist Shows:

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The Economist says: So, is there a problem here? I'd say yes and no..

• The chart (above) indicates one reason why current debt levels aren't too frightening; they're not much higher than they have been across a period in which the Chinese economy grew extremely rapidly...
• China's debt load is also less problematic than rich-world burdens because its trend growth rate is so high...
• China also needn't fear foreign creditors...
• And then, of course, China has those $3 trillion in reserves. So any way you slice it, debt payments are unlikely to place much stress on the Chinese economy...
• But that's not to say that debts aren't a problem. I think a near-term economic crisis within China is unlikely. But I also think that many of the economic policy choices that make China's debt less of a near-term threat are likely to seriously complicate growth 5 or 10 years down the road. 

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